Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said on Tuesday that they could not change the rules of procedure to allow the defense to present their evidence in each article after the prosecution’s presentation, as suggested by Senator Ralph Recto during the proceedings.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile admitted on Tuesday to helping the prosecution during the impeachment trial because he saw them having difficulties in the direct examination of their witness.
Village officials and residents of Lingayen, Pangasinan, have filed a criminal complaint at the Office of the Ombudsman against provincial officials, led by Governor Amado Espino Jr., for allegedly allowing illegal black sand mining in the province.
An environment coalition in Subic staged various protest activities on Sunday to generate higher awareness against the planned coal plant project by a consortium of energy firms.
The developer of Camp John Hay has acquired a second temporary restraining order (TRO) against a government takeover attempt over the former American rest and recreation center.
A Commission on Elections (Comelec) official warned two candidates in the February 4 special elections in the second congressional district of Zambales to follow the guidelines on sizes of campaign posters.
A Kenyan woman has been convicted of drug smuggling by a Lapu-Lapu City court and sentenced to life in prison. Judge Toribio Quiwag, of the Lapu-Lapu regional trial ccourt Branch 27, ordered Asha Atieno Oguto, 25, jailed for life for attempting to smuggle at least 3 kilograms of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) on Sept. 29, 2011.
Drawing about 40,000 tourists since it was launched last year as part of the annual Bangus Festival, the Dawel River cruise would now include unique attractions showcasing this city’s culture and history to bring the attraction’s value a notch higher.
What better way for Filipinos to understand the Chinese New Year tradition than through the visual arts? This has motivated journalist Nancy T. Lu to organize the exhibit, “Chinese New Year Prints: A World of Good Wishes,” at Bencab Museum on Asin Road in Tuba, Benguet.
A historical accident happened in Baguio City, which a Maryknoll nun describes as part of “how God works.” Three years after the Maryknoll Sisters arrived in the Philippines in 1926 to establish what was then called Catholic Teachers’ Normal School, they came to Baguio and eventually built a convent on a 2.8-hectare lot atop a hill in Barangay Campo Sioco.
The prosecution team insisted on Tuesday that the Coronas had received “a discount given just specifically for [that] transaction and not to anybody else” regarding the purchase of the Bellagio penthouse that was originally priced at P24 million but was purchased by the Coronas for P14.5 million.
The defense will call as witnesses from seven to eight congressmen to the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, its spokesman said Tuesday.
A spokesman for the defense said Tuesday that they welcomed the senator-judges’ move to get hold of engineers’ reports and insurance claims on Chief Justice Renato Corona’s Bellagio unit in order to shed light on the reasons for the reduction given to Corona as disclosed by a witness at the resumption of the impeachment trial on the same day.
